AP美联社一分钟新闻 2008-11-09
时间：2019-02-11 作者：英语课 分类：美联社新闻一分钟2008年(十一)月
1. President-elect Barack Obama keeps working on a list of foreign leaders, talking to Russia's president, both agreeing they should meet soon. Obama is also being slammed by Iran after saying it is "unacceptable" for the nation to develop nuclear weapons.
2. In Haiti, a death toll 1 from a school collapse 2 rises to at least 75 people with crews continuing the search for survivors 3. The president of the country is blaming poor construction for the accident, including a lack of steel reinforcement.
3. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits the West Bank town of Jenin. It used to be a militant 4 stronghold. Now the town is calm with the deployment 5 of Palestinian forces. Rice called it "a place of hope".
4. Hurricane Paloma is bearing down on Cuba--Category 4 storm that has farmers rushing to protect crops and livestock 6. Earlier, the storm knocked out power across much of Grand Cayman Island.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. slam: v.
to criticize someone or something strongly - used especially in newspapers.
2. bear down: phr v.
bear down on sb/sth
to move quickly towards a person or place in a threatening way
3. livestock: n [plural, U]
animals such as cows and sheep that are kept on a farm
4. knock out: phr v.
to damage something so that it does not work.
- The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
- The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
- The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
- The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。
- The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
- survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
- Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
- He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。
- He has inquired out the deployment of the enemy troops. 他已查出敌军的兵力部署情况。
- Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used customer-driven quality, design and manufacturing management tool. 质量功能展开(quality function deployment,QFD)是一个广泛应用的顾客需求驱动的设计、制造和质量管理工具。